TREATY, Circumstances have enabled us to present this morning to our readers the complete text of the new treaty between the United States and China, which w signed on the] Sth instant; and it will undoubtedly be read with great interest, Alvhough it follows so generally the Brisish Treaty of Shanghai, it has required as much di it were entirely new, for itis thirteen months since the British Treaty was signed. It begins with three articles which have no counterpart r James Mackay's treaty, and which only confirm rights already conceded, or slightly extend them.—Article I confirms the right of the U.S. Representative to reside at Peki ride IL confirms the right to Consuls in China; and A confirms the rights of residence in China 3. citizen: much d throughout the return for which ents to a surtax bring-import tui! up to 1 y cent, and limiting 7 por the collection of likin dues 1 bet permanently abatis the only stations allowed te remain being certain native Custom-ho' artionlarised. There is a provision for recasting the foreign export tariff, in the Briish treaty, but there is no provision for a consump!
for exe's on machine-nis yarn and cloth manufactured in Chin he provisions for the supervision of] native Customs by the Imperial Maritime Customs, the inv tion of breaches of tr pinishnens of the eft the publication of the Treaty, are ame as th in the There. is, of ed-nation cla issue of rea-enable tions, which protection of patents and he Article (XLL) dooli land warers navigation is brief one, and it. includes the fo'lowing paragraph providing for the opening of Moukden and Antung in Manchuria:—"'The Chinese Gov. ernment that upon the exchange of the rat ations of this Treaty, Moukden and Antung, both Hin the province of Shengking, be Jopened by China i itself as places of residence and trade.
The selection of fitting localities to be set apart for foreign residence trade shall be agreed upon by the governments of the United States and China after consultation together." The U.S. Commissioners are to be congratulated upon the terms in which the latter part of this paraaph is framed.
Article XIII, pr ding for a uniform coinage i contains the additional stipulation that the Haikuan tael is to remain the unit for the payment. of Customs duties, There is a Missionary Article (XIV), which definitely legaitses the acquisition of land and buildings in the interior by missionaries, revises the status of Christian converts, and provides that their conversion shall not remove them from the jurisdiction of their own officials, Article XII of the Mackay Treaty in which reference is made toa possible aboli of extraterritoriality in future is reprodu: mutatis mutundi: somewhat bri than the one in the Br prohibiting the importation of morphia: this prohibi shall be uniformly applied to such importation fi countries Then comes formal Article as to farmer T annexes to the first explains why nothin is said about the taxati the second permits the establishny of branch native Customs-he ity, full Tre ties made will, to be nade ent exch other,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.